BIB_ID
126785
Accession number
MA 9560
Display Date
undated [1810 or later].
Credit line
Purchased, 1891.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 24 x 18.7 cm
Notes
The subtitle explains the context for this poem: "Intended to be spoken by Mr. Elliston (in case he should approve it) at the Benefit Night for the British Prisoners in France." It is not known who the poem's author is nor in whose hand it is written.
The manuscript contains a number of edits in another hand. At the end of the poem there is a section titled "Remarks," in which the reader explains their edits and points out various defects of the poem, concluding "The above defects, and probably many others less prominent, would not have escaped Mr. Elliston's notice in that rigorous investigation which this address would have required previously to its public recitation."
Mention is made in the poem of the "capture of Banda," which probably refers to the British capture of the Banda Islands from the Dutch in August 1810.
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume from the series Dramatic Memoirs (PML 9505-9528).
The manuscript contains a number of edits in another hand. At the end of the poem there is a section titled "Remarks," in which the reader explains their edits and points out various defects of the poem, concluding "The above defects, and probably many others less prominent, would not have escaped Mr. Elliston's notice in that rigorous investigation which this address would have required previously to its public recitation."
Mention is made in the poem of the "capture of Banda," which probably refers to the British capture of the Banda Islands from the Dutch in August 1810.
Removed from an extra-illustrated volume from the series Dramatic Memoirs (PML 9505-9528).
Provenance
Purchased from Henry Sotheran & Co., London, 1891.
Summary
Being a poem of 44 lines on the subject of the British prisoners in France, and concluding with a quotation from "Rule, Britannia!".
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